Excerpt from Belgian DaysThe station-master stood on the platform, await ing the afternoon express from Paris, while a few porters in gray blouses hurried up to the scene of action, on the look-out for a job.The express thundered into the station, and stopped. The window was lowered in a first class compartment, and a lady's small, neatly gloved hand appeared over the side, making an ineffectual attempt to open the door from the outside.This manoeuvre caught the guard's eye, he sprang forward and swung the door wide Open.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.